The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-28 00:00:00

T HEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, will be produced a Grand Stage Revival of Shakspere's Chnnicle or Historical Play, entitled the First Part of HENRY THE FOURTH. No pains or expense will be spared to render this presen tation of our National Autho r ' s most popular, and it may be said, most representative English Drama, a becom ng Corn me noratlon, in example, at the Na tional Theatre, of the gr andeur and comarehensive character of his genius. The cast will include impersonations by those eminent Artists, Mr. PHELPS, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Walter Lacy. M. Air. Ryder, Mr. _Robert Roxby, Mr. Barrett, Mr. E. Phelps, Mr. Rayner, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. on, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. Neville ; Miss Edith Wynne, M Else Rose Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, supported by all the 'Members of the Drury-laue Ccm pany. Tile new and characteristic scenery will be entirely de. s igned and painted by Mr. William Beverley. The cosoimes, armour, &1 , , will b fashioned from designs by R. W. Keene, Esq , taken from illustrated MSS. of the period, and other autnor , ties. Pre•!eled by a Transatlantic Extravarrinz 1. by J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled Tali appear . hich Mr. G. Belmore and 311ss Lydia Thompson will ffHEAT RE ROYAL HAY M ARK ET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. T lIIS EVENING, March 2S, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN Messrs. : , othern, Buckstone, Chippendale. Rogers, Clark, Gordon, Braid, &c. ; Mesdames Angel , Lindley, Bill, Snowden, &c. After which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENU3 Di D ADONIS. MWri ht, ;Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farren, Coe. &o. ; dames Louise Keeley, Sncwden, Nelly rOffe 7, hill, g &c. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. LTHIS EVENING, PAUL'S RETURN. After which, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Two Dromios, by the Brother 3 Webb. To conclude with, first time, a new Farce. byMorton, Esq., entitled DRAWING -ROOM. SECOND FLOOR, AND ATTICS. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE ADY AFTER THE FAIR : Messrs. Widdi combe, Garden, Moreland, and Miss E. ve 'ter which, at Eight o'clock, the 118th Night of BEL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's " Italian Chronicle ~" Principal character by Mr. Fechter. I[e4ers. Jordan. Charles, J. Broughiim, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, 'Collett, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss E. Laveuu, 3111. Lee, :Ales Elsworthy. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is Blade to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either for play bills or for the safe keeping, of hati and cloaks, and teat the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever. Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. NT ENV TEE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.- 1 1 / 4 :11 S o le Propristor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE BRETTY HORSEBREAKER : Mr. J. L. Toole and Miss Woolgar. At S. LE : Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, Stephenson ; Miss I Simms and Mrs. Billington. To conclude with TfIE AREA BELLE : J. L. Tou!e, P. Bedford, t. ilomer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. MISS BATEM AN.—LEAH.—EAbTER SIONDA.Y and EVERY EVENING.—Miss Bateman will re-aprear in her great impersonation of the Jewish maiden ',LAU further notice. In order :o give due effect to Vds most remarkable success of the season, eolirety new scenery by the celebrat , d artists Messrs. Danson and cons, and Thomps,:n. New drcss:s and appo'ntments have be,n p-epare t for its production.—N. ?s. In consequence of the pressing and numerous ~pplications at the Box-offize, ar rangement, have now been made by which Seats m'y ob 'bine a Fortnight in Advance. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with Rank and Fashion.--The greatly successful new Comedy every Evening.—Re-engagement of those cele brated artistes, Mr. Mathews.—First time here of the popular Burles d qut?, by J. R. Planche, Esq., The Golden Fleece. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews, 31r. J. L. Twle, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. F. Robinson ; Miss Herbert, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. stifling. Every Evening, at 7, the f A vourite Fare of FORTY AND FIFTY: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews. At a quarter before 8, the successful new Comedy, by L. Buckingham, Esq., entitled THE SILVER LINISG : Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley. Mr. Montague ; Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. After which. first time here, THF. GOLDEN FLEECE Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss A. CtAtrer, and Mr. J. Clarke. To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE : Mr. Ashley and rig A. Cottvll. Commence at 7, ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, a new Comedietta, A HUNT FOR A HUSBAND. Atter which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHEUS AND EURYOICE : 3lessrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &c. Concluding with MARGATE SANDS. Commence at 7. 7Eldl THiftll EDITION OF " TH.E SUN," Containinq the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, /Au be had Every Evening of G. R. GLMNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. C OALS. —The LILLE 3 HALL C OMPANY ' S COALT•7I. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. --Ms. per ton. Double.. 215. per ton. Top 255. „ Nut 5........ 199. „ D eep Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, !Addington, W. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. The Weather—Sun Office, March 28, 1864, THEI7AOMETER. This day at Two ;'elock 4B Barometer-29.62. Wind—South-Vest ; moderate breeze, and hazy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 59m.—Afternoon, sh. 1 , 311, o-motrlow.-Morning, sh. 2631.—Afternoon. sh. 51m _ , ciUn LONDON, MONDAY, mARcH 28, 1861. The Easter Vacation comes this season very much like the lull before the outbreak of a storm. It is already recognised as such upon both sides of the Channel. A cursory glance through the organs o f public opinion both in London and at Paris re veals even to a far less eagerly observant watcher of events than Soar professional politician the prevalence just now of the impression that a party contest of the severest kind may be looked f)r, almost immediately the House of Commons shall have settled down again to serious business upon the re-assembling of the Legislature. It is not simply that the two great opposing Parties, the Inns and the Oats, the Government and the Opposition, the Liberals, so called, and the Con servatives,are so vary nicely balanced that the result of any great division upon a question vitally affecting the existence of the Cabinet, is left in the smallest degree doubtful. It is that the balance, clearly, noto riously, undeniably, lies on the wrong side, on the side, that is, opposed to the existing Administration. Discover any distinct question involving as its issue a vote of confidence or of no confidence in the present Cabinet, and the result is already patent by anticipation to everyone's apprehension. The difficulty before the Opposition has been hitherto the discovery of any such question presenting to them any such golden opportunity. To manufacture an opportunity of this kind would inevitably lay them open (their leaders have evidently felt this all along) to the charge of having degenerated into that favourite theme for Ministerial obloquy or Factious Opposition. Whenever either a 3linistry or a Pa r li ament has reached that period when it comes naturally to be called i n House of Commons slang moribund—then you ma y be quite certain upon one p o i nt , that whatever mo ve is initiated, s o to speak,adverse by the Oppo sition, not by the regular course of events but by th e Opposition , will at on ce be regarded from the INlinisterial side of the H ouse as the a furious outcry, repeated and re signal for raising peated usque ad nauseam of—" Factious Oppusi tion," Ai it happens — the word mo r ib und is at this mo m ent clearly a pplicable at one an d the same time to the Ministry and to the Parlia ment. To both of them together ! The Cabinet has as plainly as possible just nearly reached the very end of its tether. The Parliament, as Parliameuts have gone since the date of the Reform B;11, has arrived at a tolerably ad vanced period of existence. In tae natural course of things it may look, after no very exterv3ed interval, to the striking of the hour of its dissolution. 'The supporte:rs of the Ministers are alienated from them long ago to a lamentable extent. One after anot her the principal members of the Cabinet have falls , n into disfavour. Several of the ministers not actually having seats in the Cabinets are among the most unpopular men in the House of Com. mons, among the most unpopular men there even to the House itself. In this respect, in deed, we should be disposal to imagine that Mr. ROBERT LOWE might claim precedence, among all competitors for the distinction, as the most un popular. He can never make a single move in his own particular department without exciting the ani mosity not only of a crowd of individual members sitting upon both sides of the House of Commons, but it might be said with no one particle of exaggeration while saying it, without woundirg the amour propre and arousing the keen and excited anta gonism of large and influential classes of his fellow countrymen. The Home Secretary has long been noticeable both within and with out the walls of Parliament for his perverse pertinacity in the way of blunderin g. seems to be nearly incapable of acting as an Ad ministrator without evidencing while so doing some flagrant error of judgment. The First Lord of the Admiralty, it may be said, never was popular—from the first moment of the existence of the Administration. The Indian Secretary has been running counter within the same interval of nearly five years continuance to the opinions of almost all those whose views upon matters affecting our Indian Empire is of the smallest value whatever. And, as a matter of course, he has by so doing, been running as directly contrary all the while to public opinion as well. The Foreign Secretary— well, we all know what his popularity has come to be ! As a Reformer he has thrown up his earth altogether. He has acknowledged the game to have been played out. He has taken as his device that lotos eaters' maxim of Rest and be Thankful. As a diplomatist he is an object of indifference and yet vexation abroad, of disquiet and profound dis appointment at home. With regard to the greatest rhetorician of his age—reference being 13era made, it is almost unnecessary to say, to the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exche chequer—his consummate abilities as a debater, hie in many respects unrivalled powers as a master of oratory have stood him in such good stead as an orator, as a debater, that there is hardly a man in the House who can, in rising to address Mr. Speaker—at once, upon the instant, by the very sound, as it were, of his once persuasive voice— excite upon all sides so many or such bitter antagonisms. The great popular Prime Minister even, Lord PALMERSTON himself, has con trived at length to become so compromised by one or another of his colleagues that never perhaps in the whole of his caree r has he been known to speak so indifferently, in plain words, to cut so exceedingly sorry a figure as upon the very last occasion of any import ance of his opening his lips in the House of Commons before the adjournment of the House over this Easter recess, when the Pre mier, acting upon the impulse of such a very ex travagance of magnanimity ,etood forth Quixotically in defence of the intimate friend and associate of the adviser and instigator of the intending assassin GALLENGA. Such, in brief, is the situa tion of some among the chiefs of the Ministry now awaiting the announcement cf its future for good or evil, almost immediately, we may rest assured, after the renewal of the sittings of the Legislature at the close of these Easter holidays. Another melancholy case has been added to the long list of deaths from cold and privation during the present season. That list is already too long for our wealth, for our humanity, for our elaborate poor law system; and feelings of shame, regret, and in dignation have been excited in the public mind by their painful disclosures. Official neglect, under paid labour, and similar causes have been the real murderers, and each tragedy in turn, whether of the poor widow who could not work fast enough to gain a living out of her miserable earnings, or of the unhappy creature who was found a few days ago dying of typhus on a door step, with the story as yet undisproved on his lips, that he slept at a workhouse the night before, and consequently had been sent out into the streets to shift for himself. The case which has taken place within the last week has, however, some peculiarly distressing features, showing that inhumanity is not confined to union officers, and revealing a degree of quiet and apparently undeserved suffering that is most painful to hear. It seems that JOHN MYERS, a dock labourer, 42 years of age, and of very sober habits, was found dead on the floor of his room, on Mon day morning last, his death, according to the ver dict of the jury, being caused by inflammation of the lungs, accelerated by exposure, want of clothing and necessaries. Such a case is unhappily not so un common as it ought to be, but the most shocking past of the case remains to be told. The poor man had, it seems, been unable to work for the last five months, whether from illness or from not getting employment is not stated. Fer four of those months the rent of his room was in arrears. The landlord, judging him unable to pay the sum due, was resolved to turn him out, but MYERS, it seems, would not go. Ho probably did not know where to go to, and shared the horror of "the house" so common among the poor. Determined, however, to get rid of so profitless a tenant the landlord, whose name was ROBY —it deserves honourable mention for his original and humane idea—Estructed a man to take the window out and the door off its hinges. This was done,..it must be remembered, in the cold weather some three or four weeks ago, and the severe snow storm which followed must have been hailed by Mr. ROBY as a potent auxiliary, on the principle that the Russian commander-in chief styled January and February his best gene rals. However, the plan, although ingenious, failed. The poor sinking and exhausted creature still clung to his old habitation till one night - his groans attracted the attention of his fellow lodgers below. A man and his wife who occupied the room underneath went up, although, as the man quaintly said in evidence, " they did not know him." Certainly it was no time to stand upon the ceremonies of introduction. MYERS was lying on a small piece of flock on the floor, with a sheet for his only covering. A table and a broken chair were the only articles of furniture in the room, from which the shivering occupant had tried ineffe-tually to keep out the bitter winds by fas tening up two little pieces of calico to the empty window frame. He had not had any food, he said, since the previous Friday, and it was then Sunday afternoon. The other lodger, with the liberality so common among the poor, offered the sufferer some food, which he could not take, and some tea, and in answer to his pitiful complaint of c; It's very cold here with the window out," he brought him a coat to throw over him. MY ERs asked the woman to go for a parish order, but as it was Sunday she could not gat it. Elrly the next morning, as we have seen, ho was found lying dead on hi s floor, soon to be exchanged for a resting place which no one need begrudge him. There are several questions suzgested by this melancho:y nar rative which are not very easily auswered. In the firs:. place, will! , is there butt a ;horror of the Work- THE UN', LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1864. house among the decent poor, that rather than enter its doors they will undergo such cruel priva tions. The harsh repulse, the poor food, the strict regulations do not deter the vagrant or worthless paupers who want a place of shelter for the winter ; but when the industrious sober man, from some of those calamities from which neither king nor beggar ere exempt, is unable to procure food, medicine, or shelter, why is it that, with all our cumbrous and costly appliances, he dies for want of them. How is it, coming to a minor point of detail, that parish medical orders are not obtainable on Sunday. Most assuredly death and disease are not obedient to the rules of the guardians, neither will they wait the convenience of relieving officer or parish apothecary. This inquiry is more easily answered than the broad general question, and we may therefore hope for some solution of it. But the parish authorities are not the parties to blame in this case. The fault lay with the poor man him self, with his neighbours who never took the trouble to inquire into the matter, and, above all, with the landlord. For twelve months MYERS had occupied his room, for eight of those months he had paid his rental of ls. 31. a week. Since the most casual inspection might have satisfied him that the arrears were the result of poverty, and not of dis- honesty, why did not the landlord apply to the parish authorities, and have the case properly attended to. No doubt the poor man told his own story of illness and incapacity for work ; the very workman who was sent to remove the door and window could have testified to the truth of it. But whether one man more or less died, what did it matter ? His pound of rent was a much more serious thing, and accordingly it was his intention, if the window and door did not do their work, to have the flooring taken up. It would surely have been more rational and more economical to have applied to the police magistrate, or the relieving officer, than to the carpenter. A woman, it seems, managed the letting of the rooms, but she said it was by Mr. ROBY'S orders that the door was taken down. How far she is responsible for the cruelty and the neglect of the proceedings we cannot say. We can only regret that the jury did not express the indignation which they felt in their verdict. But Mr. ROBY is probably well satisfied. He has won the day, he has carried the siege—the besieged party being literally " starved out." Truly things have come to a pretty pass in this our Christian England, and yet we may thank our Night Refuges and Asylums that such cases are not multiplied by hundreds. In spite of commercial prosperity and increasing wealth, in spite of the well-fed convict and pampered felon, the honest poor may still too often exclaim, in the words of HOOD'S pathetic apostrophe— "Oh GOD that bread should ba so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap l" The King of Prussia's reply to the Conservative address is a yelp characteristic one; and as one peruses it the mind recalls the unhappy conten- Cons and endless strifes which distracted the in ternal condition of Prusria during the past year. King WILLIAM still attempts to play the martyr, and with well-feigned virtuous indignation he de claims against those who occasion the disaffec- tion that disturbs him. Thus we read that " In dustrious efforts hove been made to confuse the people," Can anything be more absurd than this. It is true that efforts have been made, but by the Ministers of the Crown under the sanc tion and with the universally acknowledged ap proval of the King. It cannot be said that the people were confused exactly by their doings, but they were grieved and disappointed in the extreme at the sudden loss of confidence which they felt in their rulers. King WILLIAM is aware of the fine he will have to pay for his dearly cherished scheme of absolutism, for he describes in this dis course the withdrawal of his people's love and con fidence as the "heaviest sacrifice that can be laid upon a Sovereign." It is all very well to carry out the purport of the paragraph to go on to declare that he is always endeavouring to establish and secure that welfare. 'The expression of such senti ments sounds well in an address or a reply, but we who can see behind the scenes, and behold things from afar with their bold outlines dis played, not troubling ourselves about the minor adjuncts, are pretty well satisfied that when Monarchs seek to extend their power beyond the verge of constitutional limits, and Ministers in the plenitude of their zeal seek at all hazards to carry out the royal desires, the welfare of the people is put quite on one side. It may be taken as an un erring test that when rulers and authorities speak overmuch concerning the intensity of their solici tude for the well-being of their subjects, mischief is brewing somewhere. Profession and prac tice are very different things, and a melan choly illustration is now being exemplified in Prassii. The King next goes on to announce hie satisfrction at the " joyful revulsion" that has taken place. It is to be questioned if this delight may not be very questionable in the long run ; but, at all events, now it is a certified thing, an acknow ledged fact, and King WILLIAM makes the most of it. The army comes in for its share of compliments, and this praise is accorded with a willing hand, and, doubtless, the appreciation of its merits springs quite es much from the opportune assistance it has rendered in dispersing the enemies at home as in gaining triumphs abroad. The sense of injustice, the hatred of oppression, and the determination to vindicate their rights which so distinguished the Prussians last year, and which called forth the admiration and attracted the sympathy of Europe, is now lost sight of, when the victims are to be others and not themselves. This is not as it should be, end goes far to neutralise all the good feelings and kind interest that were being expressed in this country. The strange fact is, however, that the KING does not want to make out that all is pro mising. He passes over this present period, and takes a perspective glance at the time when war must merge in peace. Of this era he does not seem sanguine, nor can he refrain from giving utterance to his gloomy prognostications. "When this is past, it is not impossible that we shall encounter times such as we have known for two years." This is encouraging, certainly ; the most vehement opponent of the BISMARK faction, the most bitter satirist of the policy that reigns supreme in the Berlin Cabinet, could hardly have uttered a more startling warning, or indulged in a more sinister prophecy. It is most probably a very sapient re mark, but it is not a statement which bears out its own professions, in so far as regards the tone and temper of the Royal Address. A King who has the interest of his people at heart now enjoys the esteem which he deserves, and meets the respect he merits, because the people are dazzled and delighted with the successes of their armies in prosecuting an urgent war with cruel, arduous, and misguided zeal. When, however, this season is past, all that can be looked for is a recurrence to the tur moils that disgraced the public condition and dis tracted the private existence of the kingdom. If this is to be all that can result from so much time, trouble, and expense, King WILLIAM may well ex claim, in the words of a wiser king than any that ever sat ca a Prussian throne, "All is vanity and ion of spirit." The ooneludin - -sepia in iexat parag the reply is not based on a very solid foundation. The KING hopes for a time when they shell all be united, and then he will see "who will dare to undertake anything against Prussia." It may be then, and not till then, for the prospects now look ing in the distance are not so smiling and encourag ing as well-wishers could desire, or earnest devotees to their country demand. Finally, it would seem, that this speech of the King of PRUSSIA does not betoken much reliance, on his part, as to the safety or serenity of the future, and if the present is favour ably contrasted with the past, it is not said that the satisfactory will prevail over the gloomy for any length of time. It is very certain that King EVIL LIAM'S persistent (frorts to remodel the Constitution have not as yet brought in their train peace, pros perity, or honour, and if the prophecies uttered in this discourse are at all ratified the latter end will b 9 even more disheartening than the commence. Art Gossip, Mr. MILLAIS, it is said, will send several paintings to the Royal Academy, one, it is wh spored, is a continuation of "My First Sermon," showing the result of a three hours' discourse of soporific tendencies. Mr. FAED'S picture is taken from " Atld Robin Gray"-- "He was father, mother, and a' things to rue." Mr. SANT has "Dick Whittington Listening to the Story of the Bells," and portraits of Lord Raglan's son, of Lord Braybrooke's hazel-eyed little girl, and of the late Lord Herbert's daughter. Mr. ARMYTAGE has chosen a sacred theme, "Ahab and Jezabel." N. FLANDIN, the French artist who painted the portrait of Prince Napoleon, which was in the Internationsl Exhi bition, is recently deceased. M. Gaint is about to publish an atawer to Renan's " Yi© de Jesus." The title of M, Guizot's book is to be " Jesus Christ." THE PLOT OF MR. CHARLES DICKENS'S NEW NOVEL, " Our Mutual Friend," it is rumoured, will relate to some of the incidents of the late Roupeli case. TENNYSON'S NEW WORK will not appear just yet, according to a statement put forth by a contemporary. It will be a small book, containing only one poem— " Enoch the Fisherman"—which has beer, in print more than a twelvemonth_, the author's fine critical taste being not quite satisfied. It being, in fact, one of the secrets of tLe Laureate's success, that he does not hurry before the public. THE GRAND SEAL OF THE MEXICAN EMPEROR MAxIMILLAN is being engraved at Briinn. A➢IERIC AN STEAMERS DUE THIS WEEK..—The In. man Company's steamer City of New York, Captain Kennedy, from New York on the 19th instant, is duo at QueenstowL to-morrow ; and the Cunard steamer Austral asian, Captain Cook, from New York on the 23d, is ex pecten to arrive at Queenstown in the course of Saturday next. SAVINGS BANKS.—From a Parliamentary return issued on Saturday it appears that the total amount of interest credited to savings banks on the capital sums in- vested with the commik , sioners in the year ending Nov, 20, 1863, was £1,309,710 Hs Gd. The amount of interest ac- tually paid during the same period was £11,678 4s Id. From raina Sunday to Good Friday, both in. cludtd, the fragments of the true cross, the crown of thorns, and one of the nails used at the cruc:fixion of our Saviour, have been exposed to the veneration of the faith- rul at the entrance to the choir of Notre Dame. The relics are shown in a new reliquary of silver-gilt, made at the ex pense of the Chapter. On three high-backed Byzantine chairs, placed on a salver, are seated St. Louis, wearing a crown set with rubies and emeralds, St. Helena with the holy cross, and Baldwin 11., Emperor of Constanti.. nople. These three figures wear the costume of the middle-ages, and are well executed in silver, Over their heads is a kind of canopy resting on the backs of the chairs and richly ornamented with diamonds and turquoises. From the centre of the canopy rises a column surmounted by a lantern of rock crystal, round which are grouped the statues of the Twelve Apostles, with intervals between them, so as to leave visible the crown of thorns inside, over which is the royal crown of St. Louis set with rubies, emeralds, and pearls. This reliquary cost the Chapter 53,000 francs, exclusively r,f the diamonds and precious stone?, estimated at 200,000 f, One of the diamands is of itself valued at 11,000 f. Another reliquary contains the largest known fragment of the true cross, en closed in a rock crystal crucifix, supported by two angles. Below the cross is the holy nail in a crystal cross.—Ualig nani. SINGULAR CAPTURE OF A MURDERER.—The French brig Jeanne et Joseph has just arrived ai Havre from Nagasaki, in Japan, with an assorted cargo of porcelain, tea, and about 200 bales of cotton. This is the first vessel that has arrived at Havre direct from that coun • try. A remarkable incident occurred on board the Jeanne et Joseph whilst at Nagasaki. A men, who gave his name as Ratley, and pretended to be an Irishman, engaged a passage at Shanghai for Japan. The captain thought it strange that an Englishman should embark on board a Fiench vessel while there were rawly ships of his own country lying in port for the same destination, and on ar riving at Nagasaki he invited him to go on shore with his papers to the French Consul's office in order that his name might be regularly inscribed on the ship's log. The stranger in reply urged that he was ill and could not go. This refusal increased the suspicions of the captain, who also remarked that the man always concealed himself when any European came on board. The captain then desired the mate to pro pose to the stranger to go on shore for a run in the evening, so that the man should not have a pretext for declining to go to the consul's office on the following day. The stranger consented, and accompanied the mate to a coffee-house, where he was at once recognised, by a woman who had his photographic portrait, as a murderer named Buckley, who had shortly berore killed an American captain at Shanghai, and was also accused cf other crimes in California. The man, seeing that la) was identified, sud denly loft the safe, and returned on board the ship. The captain, on hearing what had taken place, had the passen ger watched all night, and sent word to the French consul that steps might be taken for his arrest. The next morn • ing, the man being requested to go cn shore with the cap tain, again refused, but seeing that ho would be forced to do so, at last consented to proceed to 'he consul's office. He was there placed under arrest and searched, when a loaded revolver was found on him. He was asked if he wished to apply to the English consul, but Le declined. Ho was put in prison, and a few days after confessed t h at he was Buckley.— fialignani. A HUNDRED YEARS Too LATE.--When' in 1764 , one of the earliest friends o f th e liTe t reastle Chronicle sderneatmfotrovienrsherotwiolnontghae spacefollo oßingftimeadreseeprotniscieimng applications would be made :—" Wanted,ent, he little a midd;e• aged woman (who has been a servant in genteel families, and can be well recommended for her honesty), to take care of a single gen tleman's house in the country. She roust undertake cook ing and setting out the table. A gardener is also wanted, who, having but a small garden to take care of, will be ex pected to assist occasionally in the house or stables. If a man and wife can undertake the above places, provided they are not inoumbered with children, it will be more agreeable. Apply to the printer of this paper." Yesterday, in celebration of the centenary of the Chronicle, we distri • buted among our subscribers reprints of No. 1, first pub lished on the 24th of March, 1761; and of the nine and twenty advertisements which it contained, the foregoing stood at the head. The sheet had not been reissued many hours, when a respectable, worthy.looking couple, entering the publishing-office, and, advancing to the counter, inno cently inquired the address of the s ingle gentleman 1" All the establishment was at fault. Its `'oldest inhabitant" could not remember the name of the advertiser. The rustic bachelor was unknown. No account stood against him in the books of the (Zee. Time had written over him Non est, He was clean gone—he, his genteel house and small gar den—all were forgotten. And the honest applicants who offered themselves so unexpectedly in answer to his call were apprised, to their astonishment, that they were 100 years tco late,—.Newcastle Chronicle. The Civil Tribunal has just given judgment in an action brought by AT% Hirschfeld, Peraire, and Co., leather-cloth manufacturers, of London and Paris, against the Western Railway Company to recover 10,000 fr. damages under the following circumstances :—The Anglo- American Leather-Cloth ConevanYt of London, some time since commenced proceedings a gainst the plaintiffs in the English Court of Chancery relative to a trade mark, and Mr. Lorsont, the manager of the company, came over to Pat is to procure evidence in support of the company's suit. Wishing to ascertain the quantity of goods Lent by Hirsch feld and Co. from London to Paris, he applied at the custom house, and Northern and Western Railways. The first two refused to satisfy his curiosity, but he learned from a clerk of the Western Railway the clu'ies and value of certain packages which have been sent by that line. Hirschfeld and Co., thinking this communication made to a rival alto • gather unjustifable and calculated to injure their interests, commenced the preset . proceedings. The counsel for the Western Railway Company opposed the demand on the ground that the plaintiffs could not produce a single docu ment emanating from the company. lie also explained that the information had been inadvertently given by a clerk under the impression that Mr. Lorsont was connected with the firm of Hirschfield and Cu., but that the intelli gence given was of so trifling a nature that it could not possibly do them any injury. The demand for damages was therefore inadmissible. The tribunal, after taking cog nisance of the information given by the defendant's clerk de cided that as it consisted onlyof the dates and declared value of the goods sent, without giving the names of the plaintiff's customers, it could not do them any injury, and that the demand for the damages usual therefore be rejected with costs. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREITTER'S TELEGRAMS.] THE SIEGE OF DIIPPEL. PRUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS, GRAVENSTEIN, MARCH 28 (Morning). The outposts of the enemy's left wing were driven in to-day behind their entrenchments. The outposts of the brigade R teen have en trenched the,mK , .lves within 500 paces of the works, a short but sharp engagement taking place. A heavy fire of grape and shell was kept up by the enemy from his entrenchments. The Prussians had 20 men wounded, among whom were Lieutenants Eckardstein and Itsmund of the regiment of the body guard. Thirty prisoners were taken. EGYPT. A letter from Alexandria, dated March 18, says: The Bairam was held by the Viceroy at the citadel in Cairo on the 9th. The main streets leading from the Eybekeyals were admirably kept by the Turkish police, and no accident occurred. The scene at the citadel, without any great display of troops, was imposing, and a great concourse of Europeans was present to congratulate his High ness on the occasion of the festival. The holyday was not kept long, and the Viceroy was soon attending to business with his usual assiduity. Various new schemes are formed or in preparation; among them two nigh akin—an Egyptian company, styled the " Societe Agricole et Industrielle," with a capital of four millions ster ling, whose statutes have been submitted to Ismail Pasha, and have received his sanction by especial decree. Its object is to supply the natives, whether individually or collectively in villages, with the machinery which they may require ; allowing them a period of years to pay off the cost by annual instalments ; to establish workshops for effecting necessary repairs; to plant powerfal pumping engines at the mouths of the irrigation canals, so as to keep them always full, whereas in summer they now run dry, and along their banks to put other smaller engines to raise the water to the different estates in the quantities to which they are respectively entitled :—in a word, to assist the fellah in improving his system of agri culture and extending the area of cultivation. The other is an English company, with a capital of £2,000,000 sterling; the promoters I understand are eight ,Manchester houses. The intention is also to furnish steam ploughs, pumps, cotton gins, &c. ; to erect at Alexandria great workshops for the repairs not only of land but also of marine engines ; to establish cotton ginning establishments, flour mills, and oil seed crushing mills, brick and tile factories ; and to execute orders for the pur chase and shipment of cotton and other produce. There will be ample scope for both, as, while one will address itself especially to the natives, and work incalculable good, the other looks chiefly to the Europeans, and will find full employment. To the fleets of fine screw steamers, always in pert, it will afford great convenience and economy, by pro viding them with anything defective in their en gines, and enabling them speedily to resume their voyages. An extraordinary revolution is rapidly proceed ing in this country. Europe has finally under stood the immense future of Egypt, and is eager to develops her yet budding resources. Every steamer is pouring a new population and a golden stream on our shores; energy and capital are taking pos• session of the land, and urging it forward in the path of civilisation and wealth. Not only are the cities of Alexandria and Cairo receiving so great an influx of inhabitants that, although whole quarters are ris ing on every side, house room is still insufficient, and rents are always increasing ; but the inland towns and villages are overrun, and factories with high chimneys and long lines of black smoke cut the clear sky of our flat landscape through the length and breadth of Lower Egypt. Gradu ally, but surely, the tide is creeping upwards, and will soon people the shores of the Thebaid. Englishmen, lam glad to say, are not behind in the race, and thair numbers must always increase in a corresponding ratio to the amount of machinery employed. The effect of all this is telling on the natives. I lately heard that Haiku Pasha, in conversing with his farm labourers, had found the intellect of the lads who have grown up since the introduction of the new mechanical ap pliances was greatly in advance of that of the men who had reached manhood under the former primitive system of cultivation, when the ox was the all in all to the fellahs. The Viceroy has also expressed his conviction that, although the cattle murrain has been a grievous present calamity, it will confer a lasting benefit, by compelling the adoption of an improved system, which will civilise his people while enriching them. FRANCE. BOURSE, March 26.—Tae market has been rather firmer, and in the business done, which is still very limited in amount, a slight improvement in prices has taken place. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 15c. Mobilier have also advanced to 1,058 f. 75c. Railway Market quiet, but with previous quotations pretty well maintained. The market continued firm to the end, and closed as fol lows :--- 41 per Cents. 93 10 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 15 Credit Mobilier 1057 50 Do. end month 1057 50 Bank Shares 3300 Credit Foneier 1295 Roman ~ 7 67 Italian Loan 6B Do. end month 6B Xew ditto — Do. end month - --- Russian Austriz-n Spanish Threes 5l 75 Rome Debt .. Deferred BSILWAYB. Cash. Account. Orleans lOO5 1006 25 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 955 75 .. 955 New ditto Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 368 75 .. 368 75 Austrian LowbArd North of Spain Saragossa .. Ditto to Barcelona LIFEBOAT SERVICES. SCARBOROUGH, Sunday Nigh The lifeboat of the National Institution stationed at this port was the means, this morning, of rescuing one man from the stranded smack Howard of Grimsby, J. Cooper, fitted for the Iceland fishery, The smack was at anchor just outside the Outer Buoy, when, about 1(45 a.m., she began to drag her anchor, owing to the surf that was breaking round her. A few minutes afterwards she struck, and knocked her rudder off. It seems that the master and all the crew, with the exception of one man, were on shore. The lifeboat was manned and launched,and took off the man. The smack is now covered with water, and will probably become a complete wreck. The cost of this lifeboat was the gift to the National Institution of Mrs. Cockroft, of Scarboro'. The last remaining of the County Shipwreck Associations, viz., that in Lincolnshire, has resolved on uniting itself to the National Lifeboat Insti tution. Alexander Kay, Esq., of Glasgow, has decided on presenting to the National Institution £4OO, to pay the cost of a lifeboat and transporting carriage, to be stationed at Gir van, on the Ayrshire coast. Great progress is making with the Clifton Bridge, the roadway being rapidly laid. A STURGEON CAUGHT AT ROTHERHITHE.—On Saturday morning, about half-past six, as a man named Perceval, the foreman of the labourers at Acorn wharf, Rotherhithe, was at work on one of the barges lying off the wharf, his attention was drawn to the ducal fin of some large fish which was above the surface of the water, A boathook was at hand, and with the assistance of that and a rope, together with the crane on the wharf, he succeeded in landing what turned out to le a very fine sturgeon. It measured 7ft. 2in , and weighed lcwt. lilt). In the course of the day it was taken to the Mansion-house and presented to the Lord Mayor. A NEW BLIGHT.—A new kind of blight has just made its appearance in Italy. It attacks orange and lemon trees, young ones especially. It manifests itself under the form of a kind of sore, if we may use that expression; a pungent ichor oozes out of it, and in course of time the plant withers and dies. No remedy has as yet been found tor this disease.— adignani, AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) (Per the Canada.) NEW YORK, March 15 (Evening). General Halleck has been relieved from his duty as General-in-Chief, and has been appointed Chief of the Staff in Washington. Lient.-General Grant has been appointed to the command of the armies of the United States, with his head-quarters at Washington or in the field, _ Genecal Sherman has been appointed to command the departments of Cumberland, Ohio, Tennessee, and Arkansas. General Sherman's plan of campaign contem plated the capture of Selma, but the failure of Smith's cavalry to co-operate prevented him from proceeding beyond Meridian. Bishop Polk has issued an order declaring Gun. Sherman's campaign to have terminated inglori ously, and stating that he was forced to leave the &Id with the loss of men, arms, and artillery. General Sherman has arrived at New Orleans to consult with General Banks. Expeditions are preparing at Vicksburg, New Orleans, and Little Rock for a co-operative move ment against Shreveport, Louisiana, and the Trans- Mississippi region. General Longstreet has mounted (?) his forces, and it is reported that he will proceed to North C Arolin a. The Free State Government has been publicly inaugurated at New Orleans with imposing cere monies. The wife of General Beauregard has died in that city. At the funeral a peat public demon stration of sympathy was made. _ . In Kentucky the Governor has protested against the enlistment of slaves, declaring that he will carry out the State laws against persons taking slaves without the consent of their owners. The steamer Mary Ann has been captured off Wilmington. On the 29th ult. the steamers Fanny and Syren arrived at Nassau from Wilmington. _ _ The ship Star of the West, which has arrived here, reports meeting an Italian frigate in a sinking condition on the 7th inst. The Star of the West consented to lay by her all night. After 11 o'clock the frigate ceased replying to the signals, and in the morning she had disappeared. She is supposed to have been the Re Galantuomo. - - The Jura and the Hansa have arrived out. Money easier. Gold, 601 per cent. premium. Exchange on London, bankers' bills, 175; on Paris, 3 171 ; Stocks very firm ; New York Centrals, 1361; Illinois Centrals, 137 ; Erie, 1231 ; Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 112. Petroleum, crude, 32c. to 33c. ; refined, 51c. to 52e. NEW YORK, March 16 (Morning). President Lincoln has called for 200,000 more men to be raised by April 15, when the draft for the deficiency will be made. Colonel Kilpatrick asserts that Dahlgren's in structions were to capture President Davis and kill him if he attempted to escape. Public property only was to be destroyed in Richmond. (By Telegraph to Halifax.) NEW YORK, March 17 (Afternoon). It is reported that the Confederates have cap tured three Federal regiments at Yazoo City. General Johnsto❑ has advanced his artillery from Dalton to Ringgold. The Governor of Kentucky has urged the people to take legal measures for the redress of grievances. The Arabia and Edinburgh have arrived out. NEW YORK, Marcia 17 (Evening). Both Houses of Congress have passed the bill authorising Secretary Chase to sell the surplus of gold in the Treasury with the amendment that the obligation to create a sinking fund according to the Act of February, 1862, shall not be impaired. Admiral Farragut has withdrawn the fleet from before Mobile. The army of General Banks is moving, bat its destination is not.known. A large Federal fleet, with 30 transports, is at the mouth of the Red River. Money easy. Gold has fluctuated during the week between 60 and 63, and is now quoted 611, per cent. prem. The price has not been materially affected by the passage of the Geld Bill. Exchange on London—bankers' bills, 176 ; on Paris, 3 151. Stocks firm and advancing; New York Centrals, 137 ; Illinois Centrals, 1371 ; Erie, 1231 ; Six per Cent. United States Bands, 1111. Cotton dull— middling upland, 74c. Flour heavy. Wheat de ' clining. Corn nominal. Provisions quiet. Coffee steady. Sugar and molasses quiet. Petroleum dull°•-crude, 30c. to 311 e. ; refined, 48c. to 491 e. MEXICO. (Per the Canada.) NEW YORK, March 15 (Evening). Advices from Mexico by way of Havana are to the Ist inst. The French had occupied Ziccateas. Juarez had refused to resign. Yucatan had declared for the French, and Viaurri had pronounced against Juarez. The French had captured a Mexican steamer with despatches for Juarez. The Royal Mail Steamship Canada, from Boston on the 16th and Halifax on the 18th, arrived at Qaeenstown on Sunday, March 27, at 5 p.m. She brings 52 passengers, and 225 dollars in spccie. She landed 169 sacks mails, telegrams, &c., and proceeded for Liverpool at 5.20 p.m. A►l well. The Canada experienced easterly winds through out her passage. QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 28. The screw steamer Saint Andrew, from Portland, on the 27th March, arrived here at 5.30 a,m. to•day. She landed the mails and 16 passengers, and pro ceeded for Livenpool at 6 a.m. Her news has been anticipated. THE REPRESENTATION OF CHATHAM. —The Chatham News announces that when Sir Frederick Smith retires from the representation of that borough, Colonel R. Clement Moody, R E., lately Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, and who hls lately succeeded General Twiss as Commanding Royal Engineer for the district, will enter the field as a Liberal Conservative. Mr. 0 tway, the Liberal candidate, is about to take up his residence at New Brompton. DETECTION OF A FAND OF A HUNDRED ROBBERS AND MURDERERS IN THE MORMON TERRITORY. — The Great Salt Lake City correspondent of the New York, Herald, writing on Feb. 7, says:—" The last express from Bannock City has just arrived, and set our mining popula tion in a ferment with the startling intelligence that an orga nised band of 100 robbers and murderers had been discovered in the eastern portion of Idaho, and that some of them had been arrested and had confessed to the murder of about 100 persons between this city and Bannock during the last few months. The mining districts—Bannock, Virginia, and Stinking Water—were aroused, and had initiated the day of retribution by the hanging of 14 of the miscreants within a few days, and the Vigilance Committee were in pursuit of all others, and would never stop the good work till they had hung all the others or driven them from the country. The murderers were headed by one Henry Plummer, the sheriff of Bannock and Virginia—a polished villain that no one suspected of being engaged in a work which the com munity expected him to be the first to suppress. His deputy, George Lane, was charged with being his lieutenant in the business, and entitled to the same consideration from the Vigilante. The night preceding the day of execution men were picketed around the city, and no one could leave after dusk. In the morning the word was passed up and down the mining gulches that work was on hand ; the shot guns and revolvers were: picked up, and in an hour or so there wore enough of ministers of justice to see the work put through. Parties were sent in search of the doomed, and they were soon " gathered " or " caroled," and brought to the most convenient place for execution. At Bannock City, five empty dry goods boxes were placed under the beam of an unfinished house, and on these the murderers were assisted to mount, the rope was placed round their necks, and when everything was ready another cord drew the empty box from under them, and there they dangled mid floor and roof to the entertainment of the outraged populace. Sheriff Plummer wanted five minutes to pray; but the Vigilante were busy, and as they possibly thought he might find time after, and as they were busy just then, put him through' sans cereinonie. One of We murderers, a Spaniard, took refuge in a cabin, and when they attempted to arrest him he killed one man and badly wounded another. A howitzer was brought out, and the cabin roof was tumbled about his ears. The populace were terribly mad, and as he appeared he was perfectly riddled with balls. Life not being extinct, they rushed him off to the scaffold, hung him up a little, and then cut him down and threw him on to the blazing cabin, where he was con cowed," sP tuurt HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 26. Her Majesty drove in the grounds this morning, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena. • The Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, ani the royal famlly have honoured Mr. George Thomas with sittings for his picture of the Prince of Wales's marriage, which he is now painting at Windsor Castle. March 27. Count do Lavredio and the Right Hon. E. and Mrs. Cardwtll arrivLd at the Castle yesterday. The royal dinner party consisted of his Majesty the King of the Beigtans, their royal highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, and her Royal Hi Ainess the Princess Helena, the Countess of Gainsboroagh (Lady in Waiting to the Queen), the Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish,. the Portuguese Minister, the Right Hon, E. and Mrs. Cardwell, Mrs. Ferguson ; Dr. Holzmiann, Mr. Sahl, General Count de Moerkerke, and Dr. Koepl, in attendance on the King of the Belgians ; Lord Talbot de Malahide, Col. Hon. A, Liddell, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Col, H. Ponsonby, Lieut.-Col. Koppel, Major Eiphinstone, Mr. Buff, and the bias• ter of the Household. Her Majesty the Queen, the King of the Belgians, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Princess Bea trice, the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and the domestic household attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Hon. and Very Rev, the Dean of Windsor cffieiated and administered the - Sacrament of the Holy Communion. The Countess of Gainsborough has succeeded the Countess of Caledon as Lady in Waiting. THE PRINCE OF WALES.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales attended Divine service yesterday afternoon at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and eat under the banner of his late father as Knight of the Garter, the banner not having yet been removed from over the stall. His royal highness was attended by Colonel Keppel, who occupied the adjoining stall. His MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS has taken daily walks in the beautiful grounds attached to the Castle, and frequently passes through the principal streets of Windsor and Eton on foot, unrecognised by the public. THE KING AND QUEEN OF PORTUGAL are expected at Paris towards the end of this month or the commence ment of April, and they will occupy the Pavilion Marsau. It is thought that on the occasion of thi‘ visit the Court will pass some time at Fontainebleau. THE QUEEN OF SPAIN has given a jardiniere, valued at 12,000 or 15,000 piastres, to the Empress Eugenie, as a souvenir. THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS CLOTILDE OF SAXE•COBURG with the Archduke Joseph of Austria will be celebrated on the 12th of May at Coburg. The Duke of Rutland and his medical attendant, Dr. Kingsley, who had been staying in Constantinople for some weeks, sailed lately for Athens. The duke is greatly improved in health. The Duchess of Hamilton, Lady Mary Hamilton, and Lord Charles Hamilton left Hamilton House, Arling ton-street, Piccadilly, on Saturday, for Paris. Lord Charles goes from Paris to Dusseldorf. The Duke of Hamilton preceded the duchess and family in their arrival in the French capital. The Duke of Rissalda has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Paris. The Marquis of Salisbury arrived in town on Saturday, from visiting his estates in Lancashire. The marchioness, who is staying at Hatfield House. Herts, comes to town to-morrow, on her way to visit the Earl and Countess Dalawarr, at Buckhurst Park, Sussex. The marchioness issued cards of invitation on Saturday last for assemblies on the 13th and 20th proximo. The E irl and Countess of Wilton have been en tertaining the Mdrquis of Clanricarde, Earl Gran ville, the Earl and Lady Constant® Grosvenor, the Mar quis of Hastings, Colonel the Hon Henry Forester, Mr. Boothby, and Mr. and Lady Agnes Du; Vcoax, at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray. The thole at present staying there will separate to-day. - . Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby are receiving a select circle at Griuisthorpe Park, Lincoln shire. _ _ Lord Stanley, M.P., leaves town to-day for Knowsley Park, Lancashire, for the holidays. The funeral of Lord Ashburton is appointed to take place on Thursday nest at the family mausoleum in Hants. Visoonnt Bangor has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Brighton. Mr. and Lady Jane Levett have arrived at their new house in Cromwell-road, from WichnorPark, Stafford shire. TIN Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Glad stone returned to town on Saturday, from a visit to Sir Walter and Lady Mary Farquhar, at Polesden Park, near Dorking, and proceeded on a visit to the Hon. Mrs. J. Talbot, at Falconhurst, Edenbridge. Mrs. Gladstone will have an evening party on Wednesday, the 6th of the ensu ing month, THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, it appears, was seized on Saturday week with very alarming symptoms. For some hours his life was thought to be in a critical state. On Sunday his grace regained his consciousness, and in the latter part of the day and evening was pronounced to be decidedly better. In consequence of the very alarming nature of his illness, a telegram was forwarded to Paris to the Earl of Lincoln, urging his speedy return to London, and his lordship arrived in town shortly Lefore midnight. According to the last report, the noble duke was better, but very weak. The Duke of Newcastle was so much improved yesterday as to be able to leave his chamber, and there is every prospect that in the course of a few days his grace will be allowed to remove to the Countess of Caledon's mansion on Carlton House-terrace, which his grace has engaged for the season. The Countess of Lincoln, who arrivel from Paris on Wednesday last with her family, has daily visited the duke since his return. THE " CHRISTMAS CAROL," BY CHARLES DICKENS (that is, the presentation copy of it sold the other day for £25 10s. during the sale of Mr. Thackeray's library), in scribed " W. M. Thackeray, from Charles Dickens, whom he had made very happy once a long way from home," is understood, says the London Review, to have been pur chased for the Queen. THE ARCHBISHOP or lORK.—The Archbishop of York has beet paying a visit to his native town, Whitehaven, Cumberland, dating the past week- This being the first time his grace has been there since his eleva tion to the archiepiscopal bench, the inhabitants turneel out to do him honour. The Volunteers were drawn up as a guard of honour when he went to church, and the clergy and churchwardens presented to his grace an address of congra tulation in the course of the week. The Archbishop iu re plying to the address, expressed his appreciation of the goodwill evinced by the people, which he said was no com mon support to a person in his position. The office and duties of a bishop in these times were not free from diffi culties, and looking at the future, he could not see that those difficulties ware likely to be diminished. RETIREMENT OF SIR F. T. BARING FRO2I PAR. LIAMENT.—Sir F. T. Baring, Bart., M.P. for Portsmouth, has announced his intention of retiring from Parliament at the next general election. The following letter, addressed to A. Nance, Esq., explains Sir Francis's reasons for his intended retirement :—" Stratton, March. 21.—My dear sir,—l address you as chairman of my com mittee at the last election, and wish you would inform my friends and make it generally known that it is not my in tention to became a candidate on the dissolution of the pre sent Parliament. It is hardly necessary to give my rea sons in detail. No one will feel surprised that I cannot face an election contest with the same vigour as I have done on former occasions, or undertake if elected to perform efficiently the duties which fall on the member for Ports mouth. It is time for me to retire, and leave the field open to others. I do not expect an immediate dissolutiont and wished to have delayed this announcement until the time for the election approached, and thus have spared the borough the bustle of a long canvass, and all the inconve niences attending a protracted election contest. But front many quarters I hear that an active canvass has already begun. It is necessary, therefore, in justice to my friends and electors generally, that my intentions should be knows. —that they may not act under the supposition that I should stand again and be taken by surprise whore. the dia• solution is announced. It is not a proper time for me to issue a farewell.address, and I am not sorry to postpone that duty. My long connection with Portsmouth, the friendships, personal and political, which I have formed there, the many kindnesses I have received, the confidecnce with which I have been honoured for so m an y years, an trot be forgotten, and will make the task painful, however necessary, wnen at the dissolution I shall have to saY,, a formal farewell.'---I am, my dear sir, yours very truly, T. BAJIING. CAPTAIN SLIERARD OSBORN, C. 8., we are glad to find, has been nominated to command the iron-eased P ure cuc s hip Royal Sovereign, as under his or ders WO may be s ely that the capabilities of this experimen tal veeeel will be tau' tested,—.4rniy and 11acy aa;etto.